Separable button.



Patented May 4, 1915.

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SEPARABLE BUTTON APPLlCATlON FILED DEC- 5. I913.

CARL GUSTAF SJGBEPVG, OF MALMO, SWEDEN.

SEPARABLE BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1915.

Application filed December 5, 1913. Serial No. 804,858.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, CARL GUSTAF SJoBERG, a citizen of Sweden andresident of Malmo, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in separable Buttons, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buttons or studs comprising a plurality of parts that can be joined together or separated at will, and constituting either fasteners or ornaments for cuffs, collars and similar articles of wearing apparel. I

One of the objects of the invention is to produce a button of the kind referred to, the parts of which are quickly connectible or separable.

A further object is to provide a separable button the component parts of which can be securely, as well as readily fastened together.

Another object is the production of a separable button which is durable and of neat appearance.

Still another object is to provide an operating device for this separable button which shall be susceptible of varied ornamentation, and positioned so as to display to the best advantage.

Further objects and advantages will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention comprises the improvements and combinations of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiment, pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing. 7

In the said drawing, which shows this improved button on an enlarged scale :Fig-

ure 1 is a vertical section showing the several separable parts of the button connected together; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the button with the parts thereof ready for engagement with one another; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a socket member forming part of the button; and Fig. 4 is a sectional plan taken from the line 4l4 of Fig. 1.

In these views the numeral 10 designates a socket member, which is provided with a laterally extended base 11, conveniently made circular or disk-like in form as shown. The member 10 constitutes a tubular shank for the button, being that part which is intended to be passed through the button hole. This socket or shank portion is preferably flattened, as best seen in Fig. 8, though any other shape that will fit the button hole is likewise contemplated.

A hollow plug member 15, shaped to correspond with the aforesaid socket enters the latter through the end thereof which is remote from the base. This plug has ahead 16 forming a counterpart to the said base and adapted to bear on the said remote end of the socket, in the manner indicated in Fig. 1. As shown in the latter named view the plug is slightly tapered or pointed, as at 17, to facilitate its insertion. Resilient means are provided to hold the said socket and plug members normally in engagement, one with. the other, in the manner represented.

These means consist preferably of a pair of arms 20, 21, made of spring wire and located on the outside of the socket member 10, at opposite edges thereof. The wireof each arm is looped as at 22, so that it may be engaged and clamped by a screw 23, passing therethrough and threaded into a solid portion 2t of the socket member adjacent to the base 11. The loops 22 are lodged in recesses 25, formed externally in the opposite edges of said solid portion, and thence the arms or spring wires rise perpendicularly toward the open end of the socket, each on its own side respectively. Slots 26, communicating with the said recesses are provided in the opposite narrow sides of the socket for the two fold purpose of affording a straight passage for each arm or wire and protecting the same against lateral displacement or oscillation in the parallel planes of their respective loops, that is, in the direction in which these loops are coiled. In the plane or planes transverse thereto, the two arms or wires are steadied for a suitable distance by the heads of the screws 23 and adjacent sides of the solid portion 24 of the socket member bearing oppositely on each. At their upper or free end the arms or wires are bent opposite each other inwardly to form retaining fingers or hooks 27 28 which are designed to enter side apertures 29 provided in the hollow plug member 15, directly under the head 16.

As hereinbefore noted, the invention includes an operating device, the chief mechanical function whereof (as distinguished from its potential decorative features) is to release the said socket and plug members from each other. This device comprises a plunger 35, adapted to slide freely in and out of the hollow plug member, and having shoulders 36, curved or beveled on the underside, as at 37. The curvedor beveled sides of these shoulders normally overlie the inwardly bent extremities 27, 28 ofcthe arms or spring wires 20, 21 so that the plunger is upheld or pressed outwardly thereby. Above the shoulders is a neck or reduced portion 38 of the plunger, to which is screwed or otherwise attached a knob 39 or similar recipient hollowed out to receive and retain a gem or jewel 40. A,

conveXcover 4:1, centrally apertured to allow the jewel, and so much of its setting as may be deemeddesirable,to project out therethrough, keeps the several parts within proper bounds. This cover is preferably circular like the head 16 of the plug member and kept in frictional engagement therewith by a peripheral inwardlydnclined flange 42 of said head,- the cover being snapped into its position within the inwardly receiving fiange, as will be readily understood; It will be easily perceived also that, although the plunger and the jewel borne'thereby through the. medium of the intervening neck and knob, are carried outward to the fullest extent and normally maintained there, due to the pressure of the perpendicular arms 20, 21 applied respectively against the shoulders 37, 36, still it is no difiicult matter to disengage the plug member 15, from the socket-memberlO, by'

pressing axially upon the jewel until the shoulders 36 of the plunger that hears it 7 shall have forced the fingers or books 27,

28 apart and thus cause the said arms to spread out. The plug member, with the plunger and jewel incased therein can then be lifted out of the socket member, and withdrawn therefrom wholly or partly, as suggested by Fig. 2.

' While the preferred construction of the invention has been described, it will be understood that the .same is susceptible of numerous other specifically different embodiments, and that many changes and substitutions of equivalents may be made without departing from the spirit of the inven- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the head of the plug member.

tion, and no limitation as to details is made except as defined by theappended claims. Having described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim a 1. A separable button comprising a socket member having a suitable base, a solid portion intervening between said base and the socket in said membenand a side slot in the socket extending up fromsaid solid portion, combined with a plug member adapted to enter said socket, a resilient arm secured by one end to the solid portion, thence rising within-said slot, and curving from the latterto bring its other end into engagement with the plug member, and means 1 within the latter enabling the curved portion of said arm to be forced outwardly and thereby caused to release said members. I V

2. Aseparable button comprising a socket member, a'hollow plug member adapted to enter thesocket thereof and having side apertures, resilient arms on the socket mem- 7 her bent oppositely inward so as to engage said apertures, and a releasing plunger for said members formed wlth shoulders nor-;

mally resting upon thelbent portions of said to press said plunger normally outward endwise, a neck on the plunger, afknob on said neck, and a cover having an aperture for the operation of said knob, covering the bottom part of the latter, the neck, and the plunger, said cover being fitted into the recessed Signed at Malmo, Sweden, this 23rd day of September, A. D. 1913.

cam. ensr ar sionnee l Vitnesses Tnos. HOLMER, Es'rnnn JonGnNsEN.

Commissioner of Patents Washington, Di 6. 

